Quote Originally Posted by FestusHood View Post
If you read any rogue guides dating back to before the enhancement pass, before Motu, you will find that the best players would tell you that getting agro with a rogue is doing it wrong. Rogues were just as squishy back then. Managing agro is one of the skills to be learned in this game, and most of the people i see frequently dying with their squishy toons are quite deficient in this area.
And if you remember back then, anything other than an Assassin was just a flavor build that no one took seriously. Heck, I was kicked out of some groups upon joining them back then when it was discovered that I was an acrobat instead of an assassin because assassins were only accepted because DPS is king in DDO. That's not the case now, but it was back then so old guides focused mostly on Assassins, although they are still useful.

Acrobats do grab aggro more than the other rogues, because Acrobats are hitting everything. It's been brought up by others, but the whole tree is built around jumping into or behind a group of monsters and hitting everything with cleaves and glancing blows then moving out of the way when you grab aggro. But aggro will be grabbed, whether intentional or not just from the stick fighting style.